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200 10$aLooking for lost lore$b[electronic resource] $estudies in folklore, ethnology, and iconography /$fGeorge E. Lankford
210   $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (256 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8173-5479-4 
311   $a0-8173-1610-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-239) and index.
327   $aLosing the lore -- A maze of maize myths -- Red and white -- Saying hello in La Florida -- Saying hello in the Mississippi Valley -- "Reysed after there manner" -- Riders in the sky -- Heads and tales -- A hero's life.
330   $aAll students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach-perhaps multidisciplinary, perhaps a new method, or maybe just with a new hypothesis for testing. Vanished societies have left behind masses of raw data, but it is up to us to discover new ways to look through these windows into the past.   Especially in light of the growing relationship-and tensi
606   $aIndians of North America$vFolklore
606   $aIndian mythology
606   $aSocial structure$zNorth America
606   $aIndians of North America$xSocial life and customs
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